Hello and Good Morning

[4Ring]

Hi All,

let me introduce myself to this community.

My name is 4Ring and I am a new to the whole Media Center space.

I have setup a dedicated Media Center PC which seems to be going well but it is a work in progress and will be some time before I am fully happy with it. I am running XPMCE 2005 and it works well for what I want. I can't see any compelling reason to go to the Vista version yet.

The system is an Antec Fusion Life Sytle case (which is fantastic) with a dual core CPU and 4Gb RAM.

I have an 80Gb SATA II as the system drive and a 500Gb SATA II as the data drive for TV only.

I have added a D-Link NAS 2x500Gb SATA II (JOBD) on a Gigabit backbone and this is giving me close to a TB to have my music and Movies installed. As it grows I will just keep adding additional NAS drives. It video streams really will over the Gb network without any lag. I have a SDLT tape backup so I am covered if I loose the system.

I am down to sorting out the music collection and getting the artwork right. It will take some time but the knowledge base will help me out I am sure.

Well that is about it for the introduction and I look forward to seeing you all on the fourms.


4Ring

[DDH]

4Ring

It sounds like you have some clear plans, that is great. As you will see there is plenty of information available on the site via reviews, guides, knowledge-base, searches, and of course by asking.

You may want to look up the Album Art Fixer since you are using XP, I found it very helpful to sort out album art.